Shiraki Chiyo

"I am Sashihara Rino the 11th. Don't ask why I look like a ghost."

- Catchphrase

Chiyo Shiraki is a member of AKB0048's Team K. She is one of AKB0048's current successors, holding the name of Rino Sashihara the 11th (１１  ).

She is known to be rather out-going and crazy, but also physically lazy and an anime otaku. Anime, manga, games and fandoms occupy a major part in her life and accompany her with a large trivial knowledge about them. Despite an extreme lack of physical skills and being a constant victim to pranks and trolls, Sasshi is a rather cheerful character in 0048.

Apperace
Due to a lack of exposure to natural sunlight, Sasshi's skin is unnaturally pale and often compared to either white or cheese; possibly also because she is 1/2 albino. She is rather small and has turqouise eyes. Her eyesight is horrible and she commonly wears perscription contacts; she is rarely seen with glasses. In the past, and still somtimes, Sasshi is seen wearing silver or grey contacts. Her hair is shoulder lenght and usually worn down; sometimes she wears a ribbon or similar. Most notably, her hair is usually dyed white - something that takes lots of time since her natural hair colour is light brown. Her hair therefore is quite unhealthy. On various occasions, Sasshi has been seen with other hair colours; most prominently during Protocol Magi :ORIGIN recordings because her character, Mitsu, has brown hair.

Sasshi's style can be described as 'yume kawaii' and very Magical Girl inspired; sometimes even lolita. She wears lots of frill, ribbon and lace, mainly in white and light pink. Even though she often has rainbow-coloured parts on her clothes, she is known for mainly wearing white. Overall, her style is very light, bright and pale, but doesn't look horrible. She often catches the attention of people on the street though; also because she rarely is outside without a parasol - unless it's raining. She has a collection of parasols, but only uses one umbrella which is transparent. Most of her t-shirts tend to have anime, manga, internet or game motives. She likes ot wear bracelets and chockers.

Personality
Generally, Sasshi is out-going and positive, fun-loving and open for jokes. She seems to be aware of every conversation going on and is quite curious; too much for some people's taste. She sometimes ansers with sarcasm or coldly, but is generally a cheering and caring person. A little childish about her love for anime, manga and games, she has gotten herself into trouble quite a few times. Despite her love for anime and magical girls, she is a person of science and doesn't believe in magic; albeit she wouldn't mind being a magical girl. When accessing things scientiffically, she often appears cold to others - something that she usually doesn't notice in the first moment. She can be quite a moody teenager and is quite casual. Very rarely, Sasshi grows back to her past, rather cold self by building up 'walls' to protect herself from possible bullying. At a few points, she mentioned something about that but rarely talks about it and heads a strong dislike for anything that reminds her of that. Due to her strong dislike for the usage of the word 'depression' to describe general sadness, it's possible that she used to have a clinical depression in the past.

Skills
Being well known for her lack of physical abiltiies, it is not a surprise that Sasshi is horrible at any sports. While having training a lot, she generally is quite lazy and known for being a horrible dancer. Even though old videos of her in primary school are often used as evidence that Sasshi just acts lazy, most members are able to confirm that Sasshi has changed over the years.

Her singing skills are moderate, and unless she is able to relate well to the character, she isn't a perfect actress either. However, she's an adept MC and a good seiyuu. She has done voice acting outside 0048 already and intends to pursue that path in the future as well.

Sasshi is naturally curious and intelligent; she is mathematically talented - her best subjects are maths, physics and computer science. However, she isn't very good in interpreting work and similar and often gets carried away in the wrong direction. She is fluent in Japanese and English; something that she is known to be very proud onto. She knows various computer languages, and has basic hacking skills that she learned from her aunt who is a white hacker, working for the AEPS.

Her prime strenght and source of pride is her (sometime very trivial) knowledge about various anime, manga, games and 0048. Having grown up surrounded by 0048 WOTA, Sasshi always loved the group and watched every video, she could get her hands on. She has a huge collections of manga - both physically and digitally and often appears to have watched every existing anime (albeit this is false). She also has many games.

She has the curious ability of staying awake for a long time, while sleeping like a stone at other times.

Early Life
Shiraki Chiyo grew up on Akibastar, and until attending first grade, she had a very happy life. Her father worked as a full-time WOTA and her mother as secretary; both were avid 0048 fans and she was surrounded by the group her whole life. She was always close to her twin brother Riku who was her best friend and a major part of her life. Because watching anime and playing games in hiragana soon bored her, she started teaching herself kanji two years before school and quickly advanced through the curriculum, in order to read manga and play games on her own. She also started doing basic maths and other subjects. Her curiosity for knowlege and new things grew and she soon was ahead of school before even starting; but at first never told people of her secret studying.

When she started first grade, she was immediately ahead of class as result. She thought it to be cool; she was proud that she could read manga in class and still ace a test, but her behaviour and strangeness soon scared classmates off and turned her into an outsider. By the end of her first year at school, she was an outsider and victim to indirect bullying and direct bullying; for example often being called a hypocrite - something that she might was in the past to some degree to become part of friend groups. While still wanting to know more, little Chiyo started to hate school. By the end of second grade, she developed a plan to skip school; indirectly through the help of her aunt. She installed a camera in her classroom and followed class on a live stream, only attending school for exams and to submit work by the end of fourth grade. She stayed at home through a (true) psychologist's diagnosis.

She grew into the person she was when joining 0048; a young girl who was more used to chatting to people than talking to people, and a shut-in. While her grades never lacked, her social life was - to her mother - nonexistent. Her mother grew a dislike for her daughter's behaviour; she had great chances on getting in a good university, but her mother's personal pride was hurt. All her friends had out-going daughters who liked their social life. Riku wasn't a daughter and couldn't replace that.

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When Chiyo turned thirteen, she started to develop a plan to get her out of her self-choosen exile, by making her audition for 0048. Her mother, knowing Chiyo's style being very strange and her lack of stamina, didn't expect her daughter to actually pass the first round, but she hoped that she'd make friends at the first round - which on Akibastar was a normal casting. She attended, and surprisingly passed. While not being sure if she wanted to become an idol (meeting people? Uh.), the possibility of insider information and meeting the idols of 0048 was reason enough to try it for her.

Chiyo attended the second round of the 152nd Generation auditions. Participating in the (faked) auditions, her determination to join 0048 soon grew. Meeting the members (and her oshimen, Hikari) lead to a rise in her determination as well, and she managed to pass alongside the 152nd Generationn on August 21.

Her life in 0048 quickly took up pace when Akane was elected to become a successor within her first week in 0048. Alongside this, she also used her online presence to build a close connection to fans which put her onto the list of the more popular members of AKB0048. While giving up her role as an admin in the biggest AKB0048 fan forum online, she and her blog WhiteGhost remain a core part of the community. She was elected to be part of the A-Side of KISEKI.

During her months in 0048, she grew close to Nami and Hoshina who soon became her closest friends. She also grew closer to other members, such as Akari. She was part of Majisuka Gakuen 00 where she played a character based on herself, White.

During the Halloween Shuffle Concert, Chiyo was sorted into Team K - much to her dismay. By then, her relationship with Hikari had turned for the worse - never meet your heroes. Behaving a bit tsundere around her, Chiyo had become a constant annoyance for Hikari with her phone which from now on constantly disappeared. She also was part of Kyuuseishu's A-side. In the end of the year, her close friend Hoshina was elected to succeed - something that she was quite happy about.

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The first half of SC0124 was comparably calm for Chiyo - except that she placed #8 in the Janken Taikai and therefore was part of Himitsu no Challenge where she also had her first center position in Running Blind (which, unfortunately, was a typical Team K song). By then, she had compeltely grown out of her shell and actually became one of 0048's best handshake sellers; not because she was a fisher but because she remembered every single person who was visiting her and spoke to her. Being 0048's insider, she had quickly grown into the role.

When the 153rd Generation joined, Chiyo saw her chance to convert Miyoko into a fellow otaku - considering that she wasp retty much a blank slate in terms of anime and manga. She succeded and Miyoko grew into one of her closest friends. Once again selected for the A-Side, Chiyo was part of Reality. Her election poster featured her in a cosplay of an altered version of Cure White. In the following election, she surprisingly placed #8 again. Following the release of Infinity no Moyou, it was her time to succeed. Shortly before, because of fainting into her tomato soup, she aquired the new nickname TomatoGhost. During her own succession concert, she became Sashihara Rino the 11th - much to her best friend's dismay.

To her, none the less, the kouhaku in the end of the year was the highlight because of the mysterious VTR which she (correctly) identified as a Magical Girl-genre drama trailer. However, unfortunately, she wasn't part of the senbatsu of the new album and therefore couldn't spoiler everyone about the surprise brand performance of Orchestra. Instead, she got the center for the Undergirls track though. She is still a bit salty that Acchan, Nami and Akarin didn't tell her either way.

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In January, her best friend Nami finally became a successor as well. In the soon-following Janken Taikai, she placed #8 again - realising the curse of the #8 place that had been placed onto her. Her election goal was to rank either below or above; a joke - Sasshi personally cared little about her ranking, as long as she'd get the senbatsu information. As result, she was part of Castle of Glass, but also Rose no Hibi afterwards.

Fortunately, she did not rank #8 again but #5. Her speech focused onto her reason to be in 0048; not to be popular but to have fun, and a few fans often joke that her speech could have been adepted to any place. Sasshi later confirmed that she had pre-planned it and that her intention to talk about that was for every single spot. She was part of Asphodel no Sekai. Her election poster featured her in a cosplay of White Ghost from Protocol Magi :ORIGIN.

Shortly afterwards, Sasshi teamed up with Miyoko as Arashi Taeko to accompany a group of hopefuls for the 154th generation audition. While her group passed the audition in the end, the accidentally got arrested by real DES - and no one had bothered with telling Sasshi that it was meant to be a faked audition. Nevertheless, the Otaku Sisters continued to act as mentors for the generation and Sasshi had Yuuna (now officially Yuuchan) join Team Nerd - whenever she wanted or not. MCing the 154th Generation debut series, she got to announce the senbatsu of Kinou no Teki wa Mirai no Nakama which featured her among others, and Miyoko as center, but also Masshiro na Mirai wo Irodzukeru.

In the end of the year, her close friend Akari finally succeeded too, and she met her brother. She managed to turn the Aleenstar boy into a friend. Later on, in December during 0048's tour, she often fell victim to Hikari-san's trolling.

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In early SC0126, she met Karin and Aoi who soon joined 0048 on a day off. During the Janken Taikai, she placed #8 again (and thus was part of Kaetai Mirai), much to her dismay and was once again placed into Team K. In the following months, her best friend Acchan sadlz annoucned graduation due to personal reasons.

On April Fools Day, her fellow members learned of her (slightly over the top) admiration for Hikari-san - much to her great dismay. She tried to sell it off as an april fools prank by her brother, but not everyone believes that. Only three days later, she was trapped in the old Akibastar Hotel with fellow members as AKBing00! recording which she took quite chilled; she liked horror after all. When Miyagi wash urt seriously, she - alongside Yuuna and Harrupi - was one of the few members who remained rather calm and cold; her faith into science remaining strong. She called the prank as well.

Being part of Sekiranun no Geijutsu, Sasshi was once again in front of the election promotion. This year, she themed her own campain "No Sasshi No Life", a reference to her character song and the anime No Game No Life. She also declared that if she was to win, she would change her hair to a colour and style decided by an online poll, but also noted that she doesn't aim for #1; it's more of a joke. Generally, she tended to promote other members on her SNS more than herself; a habit that she developed over the years.

Team History
152nd Generation → 152nd Generation & Team K → Team K
 * Joining the 152nd Generation of Trainees (SC0123.08.21)
 * Promoted to Team K (Formation) (Halloween Shuffle) (SC0123.10.31)
 * Succeeded and subsequently left the 151st Generation (Succession Concert) (SC0125.11.04)

Ethymology
Shiraki is written as . can be translated as white and as tree.

Chiyo is written as. can be translated as 1000 and can be translated as generation or years.

Sasshi doesn't like it to be called "Sashihara-Senpai" or "Sashihara-san". Aside of Sasshi (さっしー) and Sashiko (さしこ), the nickname, she inherited from the original member, she is also often called WhiteGhost, her mainly used username in social media networks, and TomatoGhost (トマートー・ゴースト) by Honoka. Miyagi calls her Canvas (キャンバス); a reference to her appearance and constant role as paintball target. In the past, before becoming a shut-in, she was called Chi-Chi (ちち) by her classmates, and she hates it.

As far as she knows, her parents didn't chose her name with any particular reason. She likes it, but because she assosciates the name with being bullied, prefered to be called White as trainee. Yoyo was fine, but she would have preffered the former. Because she was in the same class as her brother, she was commonly called by her given name rather than by her surname to avoid confusion.

Quotes

 * "I'm Shiraki Chiyo. Don't ask why I look like a ghost." - Chiyo's catchphrase
 * "I'm Sashihara Rino the 11th. Don't ask why I look like a ghost." - Sasshi's catchphrase

Gallery
To see all images of Sasshi, plese refer to her category. This is only a selection.

Trivia

 * Blood Type: O-
 * Favourite Song in the New Era: Ie
 * Audition Song: To Say
 * Favourite Animal: Computer Bugs, Butterfly Images
 * Favourite Word: Magical Girl (魔法少女)
 * Favourite Colour: White
 * Penlight Colour: White
 * Hobbies: Anime, manga, games, SNS, annoying Hikari-san
 * Charm Point: Uniqueness
 * It's a mystery how she is able to afford to buy multiple new phones in a week.
 * As a trainee, she didn't aim to succeed Kojiharu seriously; it was more of a joke.
 * She is very sensitive to temperature changes.
 * Her family has got a black cat around which Sasshi (indirectly) grew up. She insisted on calling her Luna.
 * Her room at her family's home includes a shrine for Iwata Karen the 14th and lots of posters of her.
 * She has very heavy heyfever and is allergic to dust.